We take Halloween pretty seriously here in New England! The houses are all decorated for it, with orange lights and pumpkins in the yards and witches hanging on tree limbs, while up in Maine last week, one house had a witch on a broomstick smashed in to the telephone pole on their property about 6 feet up...it was so funny....
with the Wiccans and the Salem Witch trials....halloween is up there with the "big" holidays...
I have really gotten a kick out of all the holidays they go all out and celebrate up here in the North East....Halloween, and thanksgiving Decorations with cornstalks and pumpkins and hay decorations outside with the colorful leaves... and Christmas, every house on the streets goes all out with lights...and reindeer and santa statues in their yard...
well, I have often thought, after moving here from florida, that they do this to amuse themselves and their children, during the long, dark, winter months.....to have something fun to look forward to and to amuse their children with......until the snow melts and the tulips rise!